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Te Design Profit soſtware developed by Munro & Associates enables design teams to map and analyse the process and assembly cycle of a new concept or redesigned


product while tracking an unlimited number of metrics, in order to compare multiple designs choices, build comprehensive business cases, and make the most profitable design decisions. From predicting hidden quality costs in the design phase, tracking MRL levels, to central server cross team design solutions, Design Profit helps design teams reduce weight and costs, while increasing quality, giving its users an edge over the competition. www.leandesign.com


Durability is an important driver in product design and it also presents a fascinating challenge to the engineer - predicting the life of the part.


Te need to understand fatigue life has led to the development of powerful analysis tools and processes that allow engineers to predict and manage product life. For over 30 years the nCode brand has provided cutting-edge solutions for durability and data analysis, enabling major OEMs and component suppliers to understand product performance, accelerate product development and improve design. Up-front design tools such as nCode DesignLife enables engineers to gain insight into their products’ performance before a prototype is even made. With this CAE-based tool, fatigue and durability may be calculated from FEA results, identifying critical locations and calculating fatigue lives. www.ncode.com


Novacast will be showcasing NovaFlow&Solid CV, a mould filling and solidification simulation package based on advanced fluid flow and heat transfer


theories. New meshing technology, new advanced numeric models, and control volume meshing (CVM), make it the market’s most efficient simulation package. A complete simulation, including start-up, meshing, and running, takes less than one hour and will be extremely accurate in accordance with 3D drawings. Most casting methods – gravity sand casting,


gravity permanent mould, low- and high-pressure die casting, lost wax method, tilt pouring and lost foam process can be simulated. Commercial alloys can be simulated – grey and ductile iron, steel, aluminium alloys, copper-, zinc- and magnesium-based alloys, super alloys, all types of mould and core materials on the market, and


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exothermic materials, as well as chills. Simulations visualise the consequences of


certain gating systems and mould designs. Casting defects, such as oxide inclusions due to excessive turbulence, cold-shuts, shrinkage cavities and slag inclusions, can be avoided by optimising gating and venting system designs. www.novacast.co.uk


Part Engineering provides CAE services and develops soſtware tools in the scope of FEA. Our mission is to enable our customers to gain more value from their FE simulations and to make their CAE processes more efficient. With regard to that from our years of experience in CAE, we have developed soſtware products to meet the needs of CAE engineers – creating reliable results by using simple and robust applications. Converse and S-Life Plastics predict the


mechanical performance of injection moulded plastic components with a special focus on fibre-reinforced plastics. S-Life FKM is a soſtware package that enables a simple and automatic assessment of FEM simulation results that will be processed in such a way that an assessment of static and fatigue strength according to the German FKM Guideline can be made. www.part-gmbh.de


PDTec AG, a solution provider headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, will showcase SimData


Manager, a simulation data management solution, providing consistent and direct access to the engineering data required by the simulation analysts to perform analyses – starting with the original CAD models from the design department by accessing the corporate PDM system or identifying the latest version of simulation models. SimData Manager helps to efficiently and systematically administer the entire


An engineering technologies company, Renishaw supplies products used for applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also has expertise in the field of additive manufacturing, where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print’ parts from metal powder. Te FTSE 250 listed company employs


just under 3,400 people, with wholly owned subsidiaries in 32 countries and annual sales of £347 million. Renishaw has collaborated with a leading British bicycle design and manufacturing company to create the world’s first 3D printed metal bike frame. Empire Cycles designed the mountain bike to take


advantage of Renishaw’s additive manufacturing technology, allowing them to create a titanium frame that would be both strong and light using topological optimisation - the new frame is some 33 per cent lighter than the original. www.renishaw.com


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CAE process chain and supports the simulation analyst to easily keep up with the growing number of different simulations and the massive volume of data. SimData Manager improves the quality and transparency of analysis processes and makes analysis results instantly transparent. Users can perform more analyses while maintaining process compliance and lowering the cost of finding information, setting up models and preparing reports. SimData Manager and the other soſtware solutions from PDTec are key enablers of efficient collaboration within and across organisations, on an enterprise level as well as for smaller and mid-size engineering teams. www.pdtec.de


Key to Metals, now rebranded to Total Materia, is a vast database which contains the properties of metallic and non-metallic materials, providing a


turn-key solution for the global engineering community, and designed to help a broad range of engineering professionals. Besides the ‘standard’ dataset which includes


mechanical and physical properties at various temperatures, international cross-reference tables and more, Total Materia also presents a unique collection of advanced properties, such as stress-strain curves and cyclic properties, specifically developed to provide properties essential for accurate advanced CAE calculations and simulations. Total Materia has been available to Altair


Partner Alliance (APA) users since 2012 and has enjoyed broad popularity becoming one of the most used solutions available. New developments in 2014 include a completely new soſtware edition that is to be launched with HyperWorks 13.0. www.keytometals.com


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